Russian Enamel

Saltcellar

    Saltcellar

    Russia, St. Petersburg

    Last quarter of the 19th century

    Silver; champleve enamel, carving, chasing, gilding

    Height 4.2 cm

    Marks: "TN", "88", Saint-Petersburg city emblem

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    Round saltcellar on three figured feet, in the Russian style. The salt cellar surface is decorated with a girdle of geometrical floral pattern of semi-circles and rosettes, hexagrams, curves of champleve enamel of white, blue, turquoise, green, black and red colours. Ornately-shaped feet are in the form of blue enamel oval links interwined with one another.

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